Sex offender living in Kingston breaches supervision order

A sex offender released into the Kingston community on a long-term supervision order is back in custody and facing a new charge of breaching his conditions.

At the end of November, Kingston Police notified the public that 28-year-old Lucas Petrini, convicted of kidnapping a nine-year-old boy in Brampton and sexually torturing him over a number of hours, would be living and working in the community.

Lucas Tyler Petrini is back in custody and is facing a new charge of breaking his conditions. (Supplied Photo)

Police only release this information when they believe there is a significant risk to their community. Local police said at the time that they believe children under the age of 14 were especially at risk.

Petrini’s access to the public was part of a 10-year supervision order imposed by the courts. While he was able to work in the community, have coffee and go to the gym with his brother, his order forced him to return to his community correctional centre every night. There were also 14 conditions placed on him by the Parole Board of Canada.

In September 2017, a psychological risk assessment indicated that Petrini was a moderate to moderate-high risk to reoffend in general and a high-risk to reoffend in a violent or sexual manner.

His conditions include: attending rehabilitation treatments; avoiding children, alcohol and illegal substances; not to communicate with individuals he knows to be involved in criminal activity; and not to own a smartphone capable of accessing the internet. He is also banned from going to Brampton or the Greater Toronto Area without written permission from his parole officer, in order to protect the victim and his family.

In a decision released by the parole board on Thursday, they revealed that Petrini had breached some of his conditions. He admitted to snorting one of his fellow parolee’s prescribed medications regularly, consuming marijuana in the form of “shatter” regularly, and purchasing and obtaining an iPhone that could access the internet.

On the iPhone, Correctional Service Canada staff found a photo of Petrini’s nephew sent by his mother, and a cartoon image “of a child being orally impaled by an object consistent with what CSC described as a large penis.”

As a result, Petrini’s long-term supervision order was suspended and he was taken back into full-time custody at a local institution.

The board wrote that Petrini admitted to using marijuana regularly since arriving at the institution. He told the board that he doesn’t know how to stop using marijuana and he used shatter in an effort to stay away from harder drugs.

“In the absence of a commitment on your part towards your sobriety, your substance abuse issue remains an aggravating factor towards your release and a significant impediment towards your reintegration,” the board wrote. “To this end, the board finds your risk to the community to be elevated, which flags a return to your offence cycle.

“The board is satisfied that no appropriate program of supervision can be established that would adequately protect society from the risk of your reoffending. A breach has occurred, and, by your own admission, you routinely breached this condition while on release.”

The board recommended that Petrini be charged under section 753.3 of the Criminal Code: failing to comply with his supervision order. The charge could come with maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

As a result, the board also added three more conditions to Petrini’s long-term supervision order. They are: to not own or possess any device that can access the internet; to not purchase acquire, possess or access pictures or photographs of any children under the age of 18 in any form or type of media; and to not purchase, acquire, possess or access any sort of pornography or sexually explicit material.